Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or concept
What is a noun?
The meaning of the Latin root word -aqua- as in aqueduct or aquatics.
What is water?
Comparing two unlike things using the words “like”, "than", or “as”.
What is a simile?
A brief explanation added under an image, photo, graph, or chart to explain its relevance.
What is a caption?
This genre includes works with facts or information. Everything included in such works must be true & accurate.
What is nonfiction?
A word used to describe an action or state of being? It forms the predicate of a sentence.
What is a verb?
The meaning of the Greek root word -chrono- as used in the word chronological and synchronize.
What is time?
Forming a word to imitate a natural sound. For example, buzz or hiss.
What is onomatopoeia?
A note of reference at the bottom of a page signified by a superscript. Often it provides the definition for an unknown word in the text.
What is a footnote?
This genre includes works that are not true, but have a setting in a time period from the past. While some events are historically accurate, the plot itself has been created.
What is historical fiction?
A word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. These words generally describe size, texture, shape, feelings, & time.
What is an adjective?
The meaning of the Latin root word -mal- as used in the words malevolent, malfunction, and malnutrition.
What is bad?
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or ideas.
What is personification?
An alphabetized list of terms and definitions in the back of a textbook or informational text.
What is a glossary?
This genre is set in the future. It may have technological elements.
What is Science Fiction?
A word used to modify or describe a verb or adjective. It may describe how something is done, why it is done, or to what extent.
What is an adverb?
The meaning of the Greek root word -geo- as used in the words geology, geography, geothermal, and geode.
What is Earth?
Extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
An outline at the beginning of a book that shows chapters and page numbers in sequential order.
What is a Table of Contents?
This genre has a lot of tension or suspense with an external conflict that must be solved with clues.
What is a mystery?
Words used before nouns or pronouns to denote relation or location. For example, words like: in, on, to, & of.
What is a preposition?
What is fear?
An expression which must be understood as a whole and is culturally specific. For example: She is as cool as a cucumber.
What is an idiom?
Written notes in the margins of a text that pose questions & explain the text.
What are annotations?
This genre is usually set in the future as a warning of what “could” occur. It contains a society which may seem ideal on the surface, but has inherent flaws.
What is dystopian?